Jason

Ordinarily, you would go out to your big money donors and say, hey, we need this or that.

Can you write us a half a million dollar check?

Can you write us a million dollar check for these kind of things?

Duke may be able to go to those donors and say, you know what?

Don't need that from you this year.

We've got this settlement.

We got a little bit of extra money.

And as a result, can you turn a little more of your efforts toward our NIL, our off the books, whatever you want to call it, the not from Duke, but from Duke boosters NIL program.

So I think in that way, the money helps no matter what.

There's another way the money helps.

duke had allocated four million dollars toward the quarterback position for next year's team you mentioned we've gotten walter eget now we also have dan uh mahan in in the you know who's also compete you know we don't know who's exactly gonna compete for the starting job we we think it's probably those two guys

Again, I have no idea what anybody's making from their NIL contracts, but I'll tell you for damn well sure, there's no way that Walker Eget and Dan Mahan are making anywhere close to a million dollars.

That'd be my bet.

So Duke has freed up some money from its NIL pile, probably several million from its NIL pile that it can now put to other positions on the field.

If over the next couple of weeks,

or in the off season over the summer, if you hear about Duke bringing in some big name player, if you hear about Duke being really successful with some guys in the portal, or perhaps retaining, whoever knows what it is, you may be able to look and say, oh, that's money that they were going to spend on Darien Mensah, and now they have room to spend it elsewhere.

So there are a number of ways that you're able to move this money pile, so to speak, around and benefit the football team.

Yeah, Missouri.

Yeah, and the last thing I'd say about all this is the one thing that disappoints me a little bit is we don't really know where things stand in terms of multi-year NIL contracts.

I think that this probably...